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System Properties Comparison Infobright vs. ObjectBox vs. Postgres-XL vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

objectbox.io

www.postgres-xl.org

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

docs.objectbox.io

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

ObjectBox Limited

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2005

2017

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2011

Current release

10 R1, October 2018

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

.Net

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

online/offline synchronization between client and server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

MVCC

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

More information provided by the system vendor

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13 June 2023

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